Brews Brothers Born Under Punches
Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- From:
- Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Barleywine
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.34 | pDev: 17.09%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 01, 2018
- Added:
- Apr 09, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.33/5 rDev -0.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
2.33/5 rDev -0.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
341ml bottle, part of this year's (Vol. 4) Brews Brothers mixed 12 pack, the theme being 'New Wave'. A collaboration with yet another Van City outfit, but this one's special - wait, what the fuck? It's Superflux, but the brew isn't some sort of IPA? I guess that's as confusing to me as whatever song this one's name refers to.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium bronzed amber colour, with one chubby finger of weakly puffy, tightly foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent low-lying headland profile lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, some rather phenolic rubber notes, burnt acetone, and very little bloody else. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a further bland toffee thing, a touch of nail polish remover, edgy mixed domestic fruity notes, more rather unpleasant yeastiness, and still hard to get earthy, musty, and boozy floral green hop bitters.
The carbonation is bland in its barely-there frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, not with all that edgy shit milling about. It finishes off-dry, all weirdly sugary and disjointed, FWIW.
Overall - this is one of those strange circumstances where nothing adds up - two solid breweries (especially in the big, hoppy brew realm), and they somehow royally mess up a joint like this. Seriously, this reminds me a bit too much of Minhas', er, 'finer' offerings from years ago, and it pains me to say that. At any rate, be careful of expectations, because, well, we all know where that leads us.
Apr 13, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright medium bronzed amber colour, with one chubby finger of weakly puffy, tightly foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent low-lying headland profile lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, some rather phenolic rubber notes, burnt acetone, and very little bloody else. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a further bland toffee thing, a touch of nail polish remover, edgy mixed domestic fruity notes, more rather unpleasant yeastiness, and still hard to get earthy, musty, and boozy floral green hop bitters.
The carbonation is bland in its barely-there frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, not with all that edgy shit milling about. It finishes off-dry, all weirdly sugary and disjointed, FWIW.
Overall - this is one of those strange circumstances where nothing adds up - two solid breweries (especially in the big, hoppy brew realm), and they somehow royally mess up a joint like this. Seriously, this reminds me a bit too much of Minhas', er, 'finer' offerings from years ago, and it pains me to say that. At any rate, be careful of expectations, because, well, we all know where that leads us.
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